4meAndyou · F
"Adragon De Mello, an American who gained fame in the late 20th century, captured attention due to his extraordinary intelligence during his youth. He was born on April 18, 1976, in California, USA, and displayed prodigious talent from an early age. His father, Agustin De Mello, played a pivotal role in shaping his education, with aspirations for his son to achieve the distinction of becoming the youngest person to earn a doctorate degree.
While De Mello didn’t ultimately attain that specific goal, he did achieve significant academic milestones at a remarkably young age, earning widespread recognition. At the age of 8, he began his studies at Cabrillo College, a community college in Aptos, California. In 1988, at the remarkable age of 11, he made history by becoming the first person in American history to earn a college degree at such a young age, majoring in computational mathematics. This remarkable accomplishment garnered significant media attention and even secured him a place in the Guinness World Records book.
However, despite his early academic feats, De Mello’s life took a different course in his teenage years and adulthood. While he was accepted into a graduate program at the Florida Institute of Technology, he chose not to enroll. The intense academic pressure, driven by his father’s ambitions, caused considerable strain within the family. Consequently, De Mello decided to lead a more conventional life, away from the spotlight and expectations.
As an adult, he distanced himself from the early fame that had surrounded him and lived a private life out of the public eye. Today, De Mello is recognized for possessing one of the highest IQ scores ever recorded in human history—an extraordinary IQ score of 400."
https://www.scienceabc.com/humans/people-who-have-the-highest-iq-in-the-world-html.html
Elon is an IQ snail compared to De Mello...at an IQ of "only" 155! But, arguably, Elon has USED his intelligence to benefit the world, whereas many others with higher IQ's achieve early fame, many awards, and then burn out.
While De Mello didn’t ultimately attain that specific goal, he did achieve significant academic milestones at a remarkably young age, earning widespread recognition. At the age of 8, he began his studies at Cabrillo College, a community college in Aptos, California. In 1988, at the remarkable age of 11, he made history by becoming the first person in American history to earn a college degree at such a young age, majoring in computational mathematics. This remarkable accomplishment garnered significant media attention and even secured him a place in the Guinness World Records book.
However, despite his early academic feats, De Mello’s life took a different course in his teenage years and adulthood. While he was accepted into a graduate program at the Florida Institute of Technology, he chose not to enroll. The intense academic pressure, driven by his father’s ambitions, caused considerable strain within the family. Consequently, De Mello decided to lead a more conventional life, away from the spotlight and expectations.
As an adult, he distanced himself from the early fame that had surrounded him and lived a private life out of the public eye. Today, De Mello is recognized for possessing one of the highest IQ scores ever recorded in human history—an extraordinary IQ score of 400."
https://www.scienceabc.com/humans/people-who-have-the-highest-iq-in-the-world-html.html
Elon is an IQ snail compared to De Mello...at an IQ of "only" 155! But, arguably, Elon has USED his intelligence to benefit the world, whereas many others with higher IQ's achieve early fame, many awards, and then burn out.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
View 2 more replies »
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Nimbus My mother went to a one-room school house up to grade 8, it was near their farm in Nebraska. Then she went to the high school in a very small town nearby for 4 years. She got a lot of scholarship offers. Chose to go to a 2-year business school not far away. She tested out of most of the subjects and went for 9 months and graduated. Got a job right away at the Social Security Administration in D.C. when it was fairly new. Worked there with a great job and then Pearl Harbor got bombed. She signed up for the Women’s Army and left that job. She took her military entrance exam. My grandmother told us that she set a new record on the test. After basic training she was assigned to a general and was his aide-de-camp. She went everywhere he was stationed in the Pacific theater, Fiji, Guam, Australia and then the Philippines. She contracted malaria in the Philippines and nearly died from the fever of 108 F. The military airlifted her back to the USA to treat her, It heavily damaged her nervous system so she was never able to work a job after that and was awarded 100% disability from the Veteran’s Administration. Sometimes she would be hospitalized in VA hospital for a long period of time and a few months before she was released she would volunteer to help them in their offices with clerical work. I never saw her so happy as when she would be working there (without pay). It was too bad she couldn’t have done something like that all of the time. You never know how a life will be twisted to where it turns out completely different than what was planned. I have no doubt that she would have been wealthy if she had not volunteered due to Pearl Harbor but that was what was in her heart.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Nimbus She didn’t get to work a year at SS before Pearl Harbor happened. My father made her life living hell. I think that’s why she was happy volunteering at the VA hospital. She was good at the work she volunteered for and I imagine they told her how much they appreciated her for it. She was so business like too.
AbbeyRhode · F
Nimbus · M
@BritishFailedAesthetic Trump got that info from Musk?
FeetAreFantastic · 41-45, M
Nimbus · M
@FeetAreFantastic Yea, he misses top spot by a cat's whisker!
